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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Saalim, On 2026/2/22 05:42, Saalim Quadri wrote: > Hi everyone, I am Saalim Quadri an undergrad student at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, pursuing Electronics and Communications. > I wish to participate in the GSoC 2026 as a part of the EROFS filesystem. > > I have been contributing to the Linux Kernel and have more than 10 accepted patches. > I have also worked with Android Linux Ecosystem in the past years, and have worked on several subsystems, backports and fixes. > > I started looking into https://erofs.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/roadmap.html, and I am interested in expanding erofs-utils to stabilize liberofs APIs. > > In that sense, I would like to know if anyone in the community could provide with some suggestions for my proposal, and a positive impact. > Any suggestion or hint is appreciated! Sorry for late reply since I was in the vacation. "expanding erofs-utils to stabilize liberofs APIs." is of course part of TODOs, but I'm not sure if it's a gSOC project since: - It's not an independent feature, much like just rearranging code instead; - Currently we don't have enough mentors to trace too many formal gSOC projects. The formal gSOC projects are still under discussion, but I do hope we could have some improvements in: - Multi-threaded userspace decompression; - BSD kernel support. But if you're interested in erofs development, contribution is always welcome! Thanks, Gao Xiang > > Sincerely, > Saalim Quadri